Modelling and Mechanics of Carbon-based Nanostructured Materials

Duangkamon Baowan is Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Mahilodi University, Thailand, having previously worked at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research is focused on the mechanics of nanoscaled materials Barry J. Cox is Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include nanoscaled oscillating systems, modelling nanoscale devices using continuum mechanics and predicting properties of nanomaterials using analytical techniques. He is a member of several professional bodies, including the Australian Nanotechnology Network. Tamsyn Hilder is a Lecturer in Computational Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research focuses on computational biophysics of membrane proteins and nanomaterials, and the interaction between nano and biological materials. James M. Hill is Professor of Theoretical Mechanics and Group Director of the Nanomechanics Group at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has previously written five books and published over 300 research publications in peer-reviewed journals. Ngamta Thamwattana is Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research focuses on mathematical modelling in nanotechnology.

• 1. Geometry and Mechanics of Carbon Nanostructures2. Mathematical Preliminaries3. Evaluation of Lennard-Jones Potential Fields4. Nested Carbon Nanostructures5. Acceptance Condition and Suction Energy6. Nano-oscillators7. Mechanics of More Complicated Structures: Nanopeapods and Spheroidal Fullerenes8. Nanotubes as Drug Delivery Vehicles9. New Formulae for the Geometric Parameters of Carbon Nanotubes10. Two Discrete Approaches for Joining Carbon Nanostructures11. Continuous Approach for Joining Carbon Nanostructures